Score for the Body as Fire Season

Call me tender envelope | little tinder | rational animal | running for the shore | Wildfires

make their own weather | dry thunder | soot snow | We shelter in a crowded burrow |

under an orange noon sky | Airlift us with Icarus wings | Calculate the weight | of drought

dust | star grit | measure loss as freight | Late now to perform the prescribed burn | or tamp

down the embers | choiring fires | ash the place | Cue the exit music | we must flee from

home | going going | long gone with the windblown toxins | saplings black to the root